How does Blue Binder Project work?

CurriculumBlue Binder Project is a practical and compelling guide to getting more from your life, starting from day one of our work together. We use real life experiences, psychological theory and scientific methodology to introduce you to new ways to examine how you think, feel and behave. Our curriculum encompasses reflection, personal inventory, gratitude, accountability, and goal setting as you work towards your own personal alignment. Blue Binder Project is rooted in strong psychological science and will assist you in making permanent, positive changes to help you get more from life.

Homework Personal growth takes effort, plain and simple. During your window of clarity, you are willing to do work today to break through the veil of your old ways of thinking to uncover your personal truths. With this new perspective, you are able to accept more, do more, and grow more in this brief window of clarity than you could do in years of your everyday life. The weekly homework assignments help you see the landscape of your own mind through a different lens, one with less judgment and more optimism than before. This helps you move past ‘stuck’ to find purpose, excitement and joy again.

Coaches The one-on-one telephone coaching you receive brings to life the Blue Binder Project curriculum and homework assignments. Each of us needs a unique mixture of encouragement, accountability, empathy and appreciation to bring out our best, to help us see our blind spots, and yes, sometimes, to even call us on our own excuses or stories. Our coaches are fantastic at what they do, and their role is to help you get more from yourself during your window of clarity than you could achieve on your own.

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Western Oregon University Study

The Blue Binder Project curriculum contains the real-life, hands-on best practices and lessons that we’ve refined through our law firm as we’ve helped thousands of people over the past 15 years deal with their DUI arrest. With this practical and tested foundation we’ve always known Blue Binder Project truly helps people, but we weren’t able to say ‘why’ it worked, and that seemed like a pretty good thing to figure out! Then we met Dr. Debi Brannan, a professor at Western Oregon University. After reading our curriculum and hearing some of our success stories, Dr. Brannan was not only impressed, she offered to help us better understand the science, the ‘why’, behind how we were able to help so many folks.

Dr. Brannan and her team went to work. First, they took Blue Binder Project apart and looked at each of the curriculum elements separately, and found research studies that scientifically validate every element of Blue Binder Project. What they couldn’t find though, because it didn’t yet exist, was a study that measured the effectiveness of combining all these elements together as we’ve done in Blue Binder Project’s curriculum.

So, Dr. Brannan designed a study, and for more than three years now, she’s surveyed Blue Binder Project participants. During these surveys, participants are asked a variety of questions, including why they chose to participate and what they felt they achieved through the program. While the study itself continues, Dr. Brannan can now conclusively and scientifically validate the effectiveness of Blue Binder Project as a whole, and she has been able to quantify some pretty great things. Here is just a sampling of the information from Dr. Brannan's study:

Why?

Why people like you chose to participate in Blue Binder Project﻿read more...

Results

What people like you achieved through Blue Binder Project﻿read more...

﻿The Numbers

Through her research, Dr. Brannan has determined that Blue Binder Project participants’ happiness increases, they feel less isolated or lonely, their sense of gratefulness increases, and they feel more satisfaction with life! In other words, Dr. Brannan has placed the scientific stamp of approval on what we knew already – Blue Binder Project truly helps people.

Participants were asked to indicate how often they had felt happy in the past week. Results showed that happiness increased at statistically significant levels over the course of the 60 day period. In other words, people reported they were feeling better - happier than when they started Blue Binder Project.

Blue Binder Project participants reported how lonely they felt before they started the program and then again at 30 and 60 days. Findings show there is a significant decrease in loneliness, meaning that participants were likely noticing the support they had and that they did not feel alone in this process. Recent research has explored the important relationship between loneliness and mental and physical health.

The trend for feeling more grateful shows a significant difference between baseline reports and 60-days into Blue Binder Project. The trajectory of this data suggests that Blue Binder Project is having an effect. Gratitude is a predictor for many positive outcomes such as health, well-being, staying sober, and good relationships.

Satisfaction with life is an important predictor of well-being and positive health related behaviors. Results revealed a significant difference between Baseline and 60-days. When all three data points are examined, the trends are in a positive direction suggesting that Blue Binder Project is changing how the participants feel about their life.

WHY?

﻿Why do people participate in the Blue Binder Project?

Here is a sampling of quotes from Blue Binder Participants when asked this question during the study done by Western Oregon University:

To focus on bettering myself. This was something to do for me because I spend so much time focusing on others.

I needed a step in the right direction and I just needed a change to be able to look at my life and what I was doing.

I needed to understand why I was in this crisis, how and why I get myself in situations like these.

To gain insight into personal baggage I have been carrying since childhood.

Because I needed to re-evaluate my life and the direction I was heading.

To help me make better decisions for me and my family.

To have a positive result come from such a negative situation.

RESULTS

What did participants achieve after completing the 4-week course?

Your Life and Your Case

Show the courts the true you

While the work you do in Blue Binder Project is all about helping you grow as a person, you may see a very real side benefit for all your hard work... Sometimes your work can help your attorney get a better outcome for you on your criminal case as well.

When we work together, we want you to succeed, both on the human side and on the legal side! During our work together we will gladly talk with your attorney and offer to share more about the course itself, the work you do, and even give your attorney some Blue Binder Project materials. We know your attorney is in charge of your defense, and we would like to help as much or as little as you and your attorney wish.

Your attorney is the expert in your case and is the person to work through your legal strategies with. Your work with us essentially creates a tool kit for your attorney to use as he or she thinks best.

By successfully completing the Blue Binder Project course, you’ve taken a whole series of positive actions in a short period of time. Your attorney may be able to use your successes as negotiation tools when working on your behalf with a judge or prosecutor.

Your attorney may not need all the tools you provide, but you should start making as many ‘tools’ as you can right now - by the time you know exactly what is needed, it is usually too late to start building them.

One last thought here - judges or prosecutors often have the discretion to make your DUI consequences better or worse. The more discretion they have, the more important it is to give your attorney these tools. Why is that?

Well, imagine you’re the judge, and there are two people standing in front of you, and you are about to sentence each for DUI. Everything about these two people is the same except their actions since being arrested. The person on the left hasn’t done anything to improve him or herself since being arrested. They say the right things, but talk is cheap and they have no action to back the words.

The person on the right says the right things AND enrolled and successfully completed a four-week course that includes coaching and a curriculum specifically designed to help good people facing DUI charges never be arrested again. If you were the judge, which person gets a lower sentence?

BLUE BINDER PROJECT COACHES

Change never comes easy. Just like training for a sport, it takes hard work and perseverance. And when you stick to it and create good habits, the change can be amazing. That's why athletes use coaches. And that is why you will have your own Blue Binder Coach.

Coaches are there to provide support, encouragement, and most importantly, hold you accountable to the commitment you made to yourself to make something good out of a DUI arrest.

What does it take to be a Blue Binder Project Coach? Our coaches each have at least a master’s level education, significant experience in the field, and the skill and expertise earned through years of professional work. We want you to succeed in life, not just with Blue Binder Project. Having great coaches with over 55 years of combined experience is an essential part of our commitment to help you grow.

Our Blue Binder Coaches work as a team so you get the most personalized experience possible. You will be matched with a coach so you have one-on-one coaching over the phone, individualized to your needs. Click here to see our whole team....

“The Blue Binder Project and my coach, Kris, has been without a doubt one of the best things I could have gone through as it has opened my eyes to changes I need to make in my life.” Kelly, 50, web designer